Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune? – Elias Canetti
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. – Elias Canetti
A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. – Elias Canetti
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. – Elias Canetti
Consequences flow from a justices interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with a constitutional guarantee of equality is not simply a contemplative exercise in defining the shape of a just society. It is an order – Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.